As a response to this change, here I am on Lemmy instead.
I’m in this thread because of lemmys “all” view
Welcome to Lemmy, the frontpage of the internet.
Please, do help with creating content. Be the change you want to see. Lemmy is for the community, by the community. Welcome!
What’s Reddit?
I don’t even care anymore to be honest. Most of the legacy social media platforms have become absolute garbage. Reddit was the introduction to the wild west of internet commentary for me. Compared to 15 years ago versus today it’s unrecognizable.
Yeah, I still miss classic subreddits such as jailbait and watchpeopledie. Those were the wild west of the internet. Nowadays Reddit is just a stupid website.
Nah you’re buggin for this dawg.
Sure there’s an element of the remnants of the uncensored net that is met with a sense of nostalgia but you picked one of the worst examples of that, Jesus Christ.
Still works perfectly fine under Old Reddit. Was refreshing the page and browsing it just this morning.
They’re saying it will be phased out entirely…
It works, for now
I doubt old Reddit is going to survive much longer. It’s already pretty broken in a lot of ways.
Yeah, I was just there before switching back to Lemmy. Surprised to see this post. I do use old.reddit too…
Am I the only one who doesn’t use Reddit? That platform has been getting enshittified for years. Plus, Lemmy encourages actual discussions and isn’t filled with AI bots.
it’s got porn though
In my experience Lemmy also has great porn, though I’m not picky myself. I was using lemmynsfw.com for a while, but now that’s shut down. I think there’s been a new instance to replace it.
there is some potential for sure
Unfortunately if you live in a shithole state you can’t look at most of it.
based on the fact that I’m referring to Reddit, this is not in fact the case
Just use
old.reddit.comto browse porn, and delete your account.You should see porn sites!
Sadly like other platforms the population is not high enough on lemmy for exclusivity. Like certain niche sub reddit dont exist on lemmy. Like it still top for tech support searches.
True, but that’s easily solvable, especially if people start dual posting
Instead we actually have a problem of too many leftists of different varieties consistently beefing, so kinda similar to bots sometimes.
I also don’t usually use Reddit since i came over to Lemmy and while the content can be a bit thin I much more prefer it over here.
On please, no bot has ever read Bordiga SMH /j
Lemmy is actually somewhere between center and center-right.
Really? I figured that we got a lot of privileged normies if the arguments I get into over age verification laws are indicative of anything
it’s a weird feeling when a feature to see the same stuff that everyone else sees gets removed in favor of personalized feeds. it’s like my connection with the outside world was severed. this sucks.
Reading this announcement felt like an April Fools’ joke.
r/all is still working for now though, but wtf.
Reddit is completely compromised. Fuckin sad to see. I got Perma banned about a week ago so I suppose there’s nothing I’ll be missing out on. I hate to sound hyperbolic but the internet we once knew is gone. For a brief moment I. Human history we had almost unrestricted access to the wealth of human knowledge, paired with the ability to form niche forums accessable to everyone within our reach and we squandered it.
End of an era. Now the internet is a circlejerk fest of bots, slop, and propaganda. I migrated to Lemmy, seems like it’s starting to hit another wave of growth. I don’t see social media having the utility it once did, especially the mainstream sites.
They’re all basically converging on the same shitty business model, these aren’t intended as products for you to use they intend you to serve them
Exactly like FB changing their algorithm so you no longer see friends life updates at all and now see spam, ai slop, and ads.
Facebook has had a tab that only shows friends content for a while now
Which defeats the whole point but at this point Facebook is just hanging on if it’s existing user base sucking what little value there is left out of it before it collapses from totally irrelevancy
Which defeats the whole point
The modern model for Facebook is as digital flypaper. Trapping users in their ecosystem on the assumption the social network and the poor tech skills, plus the highly addictive algorithm, will keep them mired in psychological quicksand until all their vital essences are harvested.
As disgusting as the site is, I still find myself peaking back in to reach out to an old friend or family member, because that’s literally the only way I have to communicate. Incredibly frustrating.
I’m going to save this description. 🎯
The removal of all finally made me feel shitty enough on reddit that I’ve come back to give Lemmy another shot
Not like r/all was heavily skewed towards one side of content (US politics, satisfying clips, animals doing things, rage stuff).
Doesnt feel like much will be missed that can’t be had anywhere else.even if it was skewed, I knew that it’s what everyone else was seeing. it brings a sense of community (even though it started to get overtaken by frontpage bots)
Reddit and X are the two social media spaces where I legitimately don’t know how they’re making money lol.
I mean I guess reddit signed an AI deal for content scraping, but what’s the point if no useful new content is generated.
Even ignoring the fact that its probably the leading reason why Gemini sucks total crap.
They aren’t. They run off of VC money and cheap lending. Most of the sudden enshitification we are seeing is a direct consequence of the end of the era of easy money
Not everyone has a product sponsorship. /s
my old company wanted to investigate reddit advertising
the smallest campaign started at $10k USD
i just joined because of this. i was waiting for lemmys community to grow a bit larger first but r/all is literally the only reason i browse reddit at all. these idiots are playing themselves with this crap
Me too. TI don’t understand this move
That’s the problem. All reddit users are waiting for lemmy to be larger without actually wanting to be part of making it larger. It’s a vicious cycle. Fortunately for us reddit is hell bent on shooting it’s own foot
I comment frequently and occasionally post, which puts me in the top % of users per the 90-9-1 rule
I believe Lemmy is pretty lively at the moment.
It’s good enough now.that I don’t get bored but there is still a narrow range of topics that are lively at the moment.
It is in some communities. But there are certain places I used to see pretty regular updates and engagement on Reddit that either don’t exist here or are absolute ghost towns. You can say that’s because of a different user base and different priorities and that’s fair — but then you can’t complain about low involvement/engagement by people who want to participate in those communities.
I miss the thriving, active subreddits for fountain pens, watches, and calculators. I tried being the change I wanted to see in a watch community, but after about a week of being the only poster, It just kinda felt like I was just showing off my watch collection. Fountain pens is a bit more active, at a few posts per month. Forget about calculators.
Yeah. I’m a fan of some less-popular musicians who have a few hundred Redditors and at least a dozen active participants. Here it’s literally me talking to a wall. Or no forum at all.
That’s a shame. I think I’ve been talking at my coworkers more without those spaces, probably more than they are interested. But yeah, the empty communities here are just like yelling into the void.
ok, but if we want to change we have to start at some point
Welcome and thanks for joining. I hope you can realize the irony of not joining because not enough other people joined.
Nice! Browsing by All here works great, just block the communities you aren’t interested in. I started out subscribing to ones I wanted but the smaller scale makes All decently readable. If there’s a community you wish was here feel free to start it!
Is there a way to block communities without having to enter them? Sometimes I’m like “icch, that’s nasty”, but I have to get all up in the nasty to turn it off.
There should be, yeah theres some real… eccentric folks here. Maybe a future update will allow “block community” right from the post. Not to my knowledge, apart from going to your user profile settings and typing it into the actual block list.
If you go to your settings, there should be another tab up left that has all the blocking options
Okay, I can just c&p the community name to that page. Thanks!
Browse by All, Top 6 Hours gang rise up
I do Top 12 because I try to touch grass on occasion.
Heck yeah, even browse by New is manageable sometimes!
I like the “new comments” section myself
Reporting for duty.
Welcome!
One of us
One of us!
Welcome friend!
Lmfao so glad I left that dumpster fire. r/all was he only way I ever browsed.
I mean it’s been heavily filtered for the better part of a decade. I never really minded some of the filtering, which at first was just quarantining the far right, but then nsfw subs got hidden, etc. Pretty quickly it was the old standard front page with a bit of chaos.
Also strangely enough, when I first started using Reddit around 2011, everyone just went straight to the frontage for everything, and the defaults in the front page dominated the app, it was probably around 2015-2016 that people actually pivoted to /r/all after the defaults of the front page were bland and stagnant, and from then on, the admins have taken steps to make /r/ all bland and stagnant too.
Yeah, and I understand the sentiment that people don’t want an algorithm on the site picking what they see, but r/all has been that way for a while. Votes have been manipulated to high hell, and while maybe it’s not exactly deciding what you see, it is and always has been 100% deciding what you don’t see.
Clowns
This is something that would really frustrate me if I was still on reddit. It feels nice to not care at all.
I’ve been using the official app a couple times lately (out if curiousity). It’s ridiculous how little is left. Almost the enire feed is either advertisements, or algorithm. The plus side is that it is pretty obvious to distinguish them, but that makes that you can just scroll past 20+ posts without stopping. The feeling that gives me, almost always makes me close the app. Hilariously, I think this is exactly the opposite effect of what reddit engineers wanted to achieve with their enshitification.
I sincerely hope it is not their engineers that wanted this.
Somehow I doubt that they listen to their engineers at all regarding policy decisions.
If lemmy wants to succeed, we need to follow suit and remove sorting by all! It’s the only way! /s
It does kind of frustrate me that they’re messing with people’s dopamine receptors, trapping them in reddit for a bit longer
I left reddit about the time they introduced /r/popular and I recall the announcement mentioning that they would remove /r/all eventually. It’s been a long time, but this was coming.
It’s not addictive enough. You might see something that isn’t algorithmically tailored to enrage you or make you horny, and you’ll get bored for 3 seconds and navigate away from Reddit.
Before I stopped using reddit, I was having this issue where it would literally show me the exact same post several times (like, not a crosspost, straight up the very same post) and it would get worse the further you scrolled. By page 5 or so, it’d be nothing but posts you’d already been shown. I just checked and it’s still doing it. I don’t know if this was just me or not, but it made it a lot easier to stop visiting.
That’s Reddit’s new “Read It Again” feature.
Damn you beat me to it
Tbf many main subs have been optimizing for horny in one fashion or another. It was just generating way too much interaction not to
Oldschool
coolhorny“Look how hot my Mom was guys, don’t you think she was so sexy?” - average oldschoolcool poster
Hey. Leave that one alone, I liked jorkin my peanits to people’s grandmas
Or just something we don’t want you to see.
Individualized censored bubbles for all of us, so nobody has the same world view.
edit: my comment was like 80% right but found out something that made me 20% wrong and… it’s not worth arguing what I was going for. Comment withdrawn.
Wow, jesus. When I read this post’s title, I assumed it was being hyperbolic and that they just changed the name of /r/all or something.
Nope. The literal “Front Page of the Internet” that made Reddit what it is is gone. Staggering. What an unrecognizable, catastrophic shithole that place has turned into in the four years since
I’ve beenI was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in “I left four years ago”; didn’t recognize the dual meaning.)If you’ve only been there 4 years, you never even saw the site when it was good.
Man, reddit hasn’t been good since Victoria got canned. No scratch that, at least 3 years before that.
Other way around. I left there four years ago having used it actively for effectively a decade. Sorry, that was bad phrasing on my part.
Me too
Remember when Reddit was open source? I can’t even remember when it was made closed source. Holy fuck spaz is a cunt.
Wouldn’t it be funny if someone forked the last free software build and made a thrediverse server out if it?
The new reddit design was a pure cancer. I still use old.reddit links because when I tick in settings to opt out of new design, reddit unticks it for me every single fucking month
That’s about it for me then. I exclusively use r/all. Without being signed too.
I don’t care if I see content I don’t like nor care about. The point is to not be spoon fed some “algorithm”. And it lets me see the state of the platform as a whole.
Lol. I think someone’s going to teach you what an algorithm actually means but it isn’t going to be me.
Fuck every algorithm from what controls what I see on social media to the process of long division and the instructions on how to find my tax deduction!
What is the point of this reply but to publicly announce your smugness. Down voted for low content.
r/all is too generalized to push targeted advertising on it so every user who spends time on there should in reddits eyes be somewhere else where they can be milked for cash easier
Not only advertising but also astroturfing, control narratives etc.
It also trends much more political than /r/popular. (Low quality liberal bait like “DAE think trump bad???” most of the time, but still). Their explicit goal with their “alternative” feeds was to de-rank the political discussions in favor of 9gag-esque slop.
When a big political event happened, you could go to /r/all and be blasted with tens of discussions about it, or go to /r/popular and watch staged animal rescue videos or whatever.
Now I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy necessarily, but it certainly is yet another major loss for free political speech online.
edit: I mistakenly throught they were pushing /r/popular still, but they’re working towards just a “personalized” feed. eh, nevermind my point.
